World's most powerful people gather for secretive 'Bilderberg' conference in Hertfordshire

BILLIONAIRE businesspeople and international politicians have arrived for a secretive meeting in Hertfordshire today.

The identies off all those attending the Bilderberg conference are a mystery

There are definitely villains who are there who are basically trying to organise government and business.

Alex Jones, the US television personality and Bilderberg researcher.

Known as the Bilderberg Group, the conference will last four days and it is thought executives of multinational companies such as Amazon and Google will join high-ranking political figures including Chancellor George Osborne, and even members of royal families.

About 130 delegates are in attendance, and more than 100 protestors gathered in a fenced-off area outside the Grove Hotel, near Watford and heckled the attendees as they arrived.

Alex Jones, the US television personality and Bilderberg researcher, drew huge crowds when he arrived in the afternoon and whipped up the protesters by speaking through a megaphone.

He told the press: "It is very, very sinister.

"Not everybody who goes to Bilderberg, from my research, is a scoundrel or a villain. But there are definitely villains who are there who are basically trying to organise government and business."

US documentary maker Alex Jones described the meeting as sinister

Labour MP Michael Meacher also spoke out against the conference, labelling the delegates the "real top brass of Western finance capitalism".

He said he believed Mr Osborne would be attending for the sixth time this year, and named the meeting's "steering committee" as Henri de Castries, the chairman of Axa, Peter Thiel, "a billionaire venture capitalist", Thomas Enders from EADS, the defence manufacturing company, and Peter Sutherland, the chairman of Goldman Sachs.

Speaking in the pen near the hotel gates, he said: "They are the leaders of the biggest banks, the biggest multinational companies, people from the UN institutions like the World Bank, World Trade Organisation, several EU commissioners and several politicians from the US, Canada, the UK and the EU.

"These are people who are all in the most dominant positions in the governance of Western capitalism.

"They only meet in order to concert their plans about the future of capitalism over the immediate future period - the next year or two.

"My objection is that it's being done in utter secrecy with the police keeping everyone else out."

Protestor shouted "scum", "pay your taxes" and "shame on you" as cars with blacked-out windows swept into the hotel's grounds.

Protestors are being kept away from the secluded hotel in Hertfordshire

Mr Meacher said he has no problem with powerful people meeting in private, but the numbers at the Bilderberg meeting means they should be held accountable.

He said: "When 130 of the leaders from all across the West get together, and many of these are billionaires, they are people who are immensely wealthy and immensely powerful.

"And when they all get together, it's not just to have a chat about the latest problem, it is to concert plans for the future of capitalism in the West.